"Multiple Accounts: While we don't prohibit having more than one HubPages account, we ask that you stick to a single persona in the forums. The deceptive use of multiple accounts, especially in a single thread is prohibited. The use of secondary accounts to circumvent a forum ban is also prohibited."

Nope, dj. This person seems to have some sort of personal dislike for and/or vendetta against ATM. People can say whatever they want about how useless religious and politics forum threads make HP look bad. It's my opinion that it's the constant, unguarded proliferation of sock puppets who show up with no purpose but to harass other users.

I'm sure that's exactly the illusion that particular troll was attempting to accomplish, but isn't it such that sock puppets are created to support one another as opposed to stalking them with insults?

Oh, I see now, you consider me a troll, too. That's most likely because you're very angry at having many of your posts exposed for the deception and disinformation contained within them, time and again. It would be more accurate to acknowledge those posts are more along the lines of trolling.

I'm kind of curious. If you are a woman and you add value to a forum thread by your knowledge and expertise, do you find that you often go unresponded to, unless you make a flirtatious response to the forum's male...

Yes, be prepared. Discussion forums are for discussions and not teaching others about things they don't understand. The idea is to prepare yourself about the subject matter before contributing to a thread. Of course, if...

That's the typical Sam Harris argument. How does suffering negate God's existence? Maybe He's just watching. It doesn't mean He doesn't exist and for anyone to bring up suffering as proof of no God is...